Noon update: Politics will make your hair hurt

Friday

Sep 26, 2008 at 11:51 AM

We're rocketing along toward impasse on the bailout of Wall Street tycoons, with conservative posters on our forums now blaming Democrats for not supporting a Republican President's $700 bailout plan that Republicans have forsaken. Does keeping all this straight make YOUR hair hurt too?

The debate, meanwhile, is back on, with McCain taking part after all.

We've got new stuff on our politics page. You might want to make it your home page for the next few weeks.

And of course you're so concerned about all this you remembered to register to vote, right? We will, by the way, be distributing applications for absentee ballots in our Oct. 19 Sunday edition. Yes, you can use them if you are working out of county on election day and can't get to the polls while they're open.

What, me worry? Alfred E. Neuman says chuck your cares away and head for our Weekend section, where you can find best bets for this weekend's entertainment options and a whole lot of other stuff assembled just to divert you from all this hair-hurting financial flapdoodle. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow your money is nothing but firestarter....

Over at East Stroudsburg University, there's no word yet on whether the new presumably politically correct mascot is more like Barney the purple dinosaur or Sponge Bob Square Pants. Have to wait for Oct. 4 to find out. Meanwhile, today, in a hopelessly optimistic gesture based on the premise that life will go on despite massive layoffs among New York financiers, ESU is dedicating its new science and technology building. We'll have photos up in a little while.

And tune back in Sunday, if you haven't been too merry on Saturday. We have a local man who has found meaning among ancient stones. We're glad someone knows what's going on, even if it took a few thousand years to figure out.